“McDonalds to cook up EV charging station network”
Well, that’s one good way to get around the chicken-and-egg problem with electric vehicles.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Choosing a Bad Password Has Real-World Consequences”
As Bruce Schneier says, “oops.” Encryption is not a silver bullet. How many times do we geeks have to say it? Passwords that can be found in a dictionary (come on, “progress”?!) are ridiculously easy to break. Wake up, people!
“One-eyed man creates prosthetic ‘surveillance’ eye”
I don’t think this will go down well with Representative Pete King, though there are at least a few fans of eighties cyberpunk novels who might love it.
Graffiti Quote
Just saw a wonderfully-quotable phrase in an old Paul Graham essay: Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.
“Square Root Day revelers to party like it’s 3/3/09”
It seems that I missed an excuse for a party yesterday.
“Universal taps iPhone App Store for tunes sales”
The subtitle says it all: “Free music apps worth every penny.” But this is an encouraging step forward nonetheless, in that it shows that the record labels are starting to get the idea.
“Earthworm blamed for laptop crash”
I’ve heard of hardware glitches and software bugs, but this is the first time I’ve heard of a hardware worm. 😉
Best Video Game T-Shirt EVER!
“A Simple Plan“. Anyone want to get me that for next Christmas? 😉
“Atlantis? No, it Atlant-isn’t.”
Some really neat science info on suboceanic exploration. (All you conspiracy theorists can find some way to refute it, and prove that it is Atlantis, I’m sure — so get crackin’!) 🙂
“Immortal Dr Who jellyfish poised to rule Earth”
Sorry, Mr. Lewis Page, but these guys are almost certainly only a temporary problem. The important point is in this paragraph: […] And that’s not all. The reborn, undying gelatinous blob-cyst monsters can also “spawn” hundreds of genetically identical clones of themselves, each of which is also immortal and able to replicate itself at will …
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